Vines: You fire Grambling's Williams? Now what?

5:57 PM,
Sep. 15, 2013

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Matt Vines

Doug Williams is a record-setting Grambling quarterback, Super Bowl MVP and champion and a head football coach with a .642 winning percentage (61-34) at his alma mater.

There were Grambling icons like former president Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones, publicist Collie J. Nicholson, basketball coach Fred Hobdy and baseball coach Wilbert Ellis that would be on Grambling's "Mount Rushmore" locally - but aside from the legendary Eddie Robinson, Doug Williams is the most significant GSU entity nationally.

And yet when Grambling fired Williams on Wednesday, the university had these scarce words ...